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Re: hope none of you are them [message #208613 is a reply to message #207824] Tue, 18 July 2006 00:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Crimson, you continuously make distinctions about people who can think freely and people who beleive in organized religion. Neither of my parents are religious. I never went to church as a kid, I've faced no prosecution or pressure towards any denomination. I told my parents I wanted to attend CCD and did so, I'm a confirmed Catholoic. I've thought about it and continue to to this day. When someone "Is capable of rationally thinking", they do not automatically shed religious beleifs. You seem to make the case that only people too stupid to think for themselves are religious. The fact that so many people here are sharing their impressions and interperetations of religion show this. If you ask my impression of heaven, my impression of salvation and sin, they will be different from another Catholic and another Christian. Now you might say well one of you listened more closely to the "Propoganda". No, as you receive information and learn, you process it differently than another. The old cliche saying "One mans heaven is anothers hell", is very true. If you've ever seen the episode of the Twilight Zone I'm about to describe then you know what I'm talking about. A man who spent his life gambling, dies. He wakes up in a very nice room and meets a old man looking like a butler. The man explains that here he can have anything he wants, and if he wants to gamble he can go right ahead. The man tests it out, and wins, and he plays games all day and wins every time. He soon realizes he can't lose. He always wins no matter what. After a while he begins to lose his sanity because he can't lose at anything, no matter how hard he tries. The chance was the most important aspect to him and because he could never lose, there was no chance, there was just winning. Finally he goes to the old man and says "I hate it here in heaven!" and the old man says "This isn't heaven" MWAHAHAHAHA. The point of this all is just that Heaven is described as paradise and Hell is described as an anti-paradise. It's up to you to fill in those blanks, how Jesus was ressurrected in the cave? That's up to you wether you picture it as him materializing in the cave on that morning or him hanging up on the cross with a respawn timer and then him spawning behind the rock, walking up to the PT in the wall and pressing E, going to characters and buying a Jesus. Just because someone beleives in organized religion do not discount them as a brainwashed idiot. I notice every single time you defend your stance on organized religion you say something about people thinking less of you because of it. I don't think any less of you because you don't beleive in organized religion, I do however think less of you because you view every follower of organized religion as a brainwashed zombie. I can tell you, there are zombies. I'm not one, and I'm sure a lot of other people on here sharing their beleifs aren't zombies either. I would wager some people are even learning more about their own faith here, discussing it and answering the challenges from others. After all, you learn through "practise". Ha, bad pun. Practising Religion.

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